Horace Bushnell Quotes
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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
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Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in…
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When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from…
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Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in…
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Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.
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Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.
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Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most…
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Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the…
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A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always…
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Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.
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Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.
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Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for…
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Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.
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Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come…
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Every man's life is a plan of God.
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Education is only second to nature.
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However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud...
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The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
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Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.
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A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.
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